First day of British school!!

Today was the first day unlike people from Canada who started yesterday. I had to wake up at 7 o’clock, which kind of sucked. But Flora made us pancakes, which were very good!! I then had to get dressed in my uniform. It is a pair of black dress pants a white blouse with some sort of logo thing, a black blazer (suit jacket) and black socks with a pair of black loafers. I don’t like the uniform because I feel so dressed up for school. We then had to walk to school and it took like 15 or 20 minutes. When we got to school we stayed outside for a bit then we went inside to our home form. I have the same one as Flora we are in 9JW. We took a seat and waited for a bit until Flora told the teacher that I was a new student and he asked if I was Karen so i told him no. Then the head of all year nines came in and asked who I was. I told her that I was Emily and that I was doing and exchange, she asked me how I got to the home form and I said Flora. She left for a bit to get my timetable. When she came back she didn’t have a timetable and said that I wasn’t registered because they had forgotten to add me in the system. I just had to use Flora’s timetable and tell the teachers who I was. Then we went to an assembly, they are very different! When you walk in you are expected to be completely silent. It was so quiet in there that you could hear all of the high heels on the floor. They then went on for along time about manners and the assembly was done. There was no cheering or anything. We then exited in a very organized way starting with the first row standing then leaving and so on all the way up the rows. It was so proper feeling like a meeting almost not like a assembly I am use to. We showed up to our first class (math) and the teacher put everyone into their seat except for me because there are only supposed to be 30 kids in the class but I was the 31^st student. He then was all confused and got me a desk. He was kind of crazy because he put the desk down for me and then said that his seating plan was no longer symmetrical one side had a ‘L’ and the other side had a ‘S’. It was funny. Then we went to French and basically the same thing happened again. I was the 31^st student so I had to share a desk with someone. He never went crazy about his seating plan being uneven though. Then for lunch Flora had to buy me lunch because they don’t use cash instead they use a fingerprint. Your fingerprint links you to your account that you put money into, and then at lunch all you have to do is put your finger on a scanner and you have paid for your lunch. It is so cool. Then we had foods; there was no problem with getting a seat because there were enough. After food school was done so we got to go home. It was another long walk and by the time that we got home my feet were killing me! I was so glad to be able to take them off and change out of my uniform. That was my day and I have to go through it again tomorrow except with different classes.